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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:06 am
 


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The title of this article says festivals. Festivals aren't usually a money making cultural event. They are festivities. If we are going 30 billion in debt a few hundred million for some festivals isn't going to kill us, and right about now people need something to celebrate.


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Good point! If everyone is worried they are going to lose their job, $100 million is a drop in the bucket or the annual budget. I'd be more worried about getting our $4 billion back from GM and Chrysler.


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I hope you mean current parties because Chretien showed he did have the balls to do what was required. Harper was elected based largely on the belief that he would run a smaller and less expensive government. Nobody including the NDP says they are a party who will cut the fat so to speak.



Chretien had a majority. He could do anything he wanted and if one of the other parties disagreed, he'd say "Fuck You" in whatever language he chose that day.


So? Harper tabled his very own budget. He did not seek anybodies input beyond his own parties and even that is a stretch because its quite clear many of his backbenchers aren't happy.

He tabled a budget that he thinks will win him votes. As it stands he is responsible for it.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:11 am
 


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DerbyX DerbyX:

I hope you mean current parties because Chretien showed he did have the balls to do what was required. Harper was elected based largely on the belief that he would run a smaller and less expensive government. Nobody including the NDP says they are a party who will cut the fat so to speak.



Chretien had a majority. He could do anything he wanted and if one of the other parties disagreed, he'd say "Fuck You" in whatever language he chose that day.


Yea, too bad Harper blew it in Quebec, eh?


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RUEZ RUEZ:
The title of this article says festivals. Festivals aren't usually a money making cultural event. They are festivities. If we are going 30 billion in debt a few hundred million for some festivals isn't going to kill us, and right about now people need something to celebrate.


R=UP

Good point! If everyone is worried they are going to lose their job, $100 million is a drop in the bucket or the annual budget. I'd be more worried about getting our $4 billion back from GM and Chrysler.


Or the 10 billion from the IMF.





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Actually I think Innuit soapstone carvings is a decent business for them.

Not really,most nice stuff is made and sold on the west coast.The guys that do the collecting and carving in Nunavut dont even have websites selling their goods.
I dont know why,I offered to be a go between for carvings and fur clothing once and they werent interested.

There is one guy in Baker lake that ships his carvings around the world,what they pay $1000.00 for in B.C. I can get for about $50.00 in Baker lake,and thats not because the owner of the art gallery is my buddy either.

Soapstone was plentifull at the camp I was at,the guys used to collect it off the airstrip and ship it to town on the chopper allmost every chance they had.

It was funny because they couldnt understand that the bags of gold samples got top priority and their soapstone had to wait untill there was room in the heli. :lol:


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:37 am
 


I did mean the guys from out west. I recall it used to be the "in" thing during the 70s along with tuperware. Thats when my mom seems to always be bringing them home. For what you say there is a good business potential for people to make good coin doing it if they had the logistical support to ship their product.

Limited space will go to gold and precious gems every time but surely we can work something out.





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DerbyX DerbyX:
I did mean the guys from out west. I recall it used to be the "in" thing during the 70s along with tuperware. Thats when my mom seems to always be bringing them home. For what you say there is a good business potential for people to make good coin doing it if they had the logistical support to ship their product.

Limited space will go to gold and precious gems every time but surely we can work something out.


The furs alone are cheap as are the carvings.
I find they would rather give the stuff away as gifts then sell it.
Or trade for whatevers needed,I got a nice pair of sealskin mitts for a pack of smokes. :wink:

There worth over $100.00 here in the south.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:49 am
 


And to think I was annoyed when labatts ice went from $29.50 to $31.50. I was ready to gather the villagers together and storm Queens park with torches and pitchforks.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:03 am
 


Fantastic!! I suspect they'll find some way of not handing this money out to cultural groups they don't like. In fact, I suspect that sometime next year we'll be hearing about how the criteria they defined for doling out this cash were so restrictive that none of it got handed out!


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Fantastic!! I suspect they'll find some way of not handing this money out to cultural groups they don't like. In fact, I suspect that sometime next year we'll be hearing about how the criteria they defined for doling out this cash were so restrictive that none of it got handed out!

Sure, let's just assume that. Why not?


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Quebec did the right thing.. the problem is roger.. you and harper don't understand la Quebeoise culture.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:38 pm
 


Don't worry harper will be dead meat now that he is trashing Mulroney.. harper's days are numbered.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:00 am
 


ziggy ziggy:
It's not a subsidy dude,it's their tax dollars given back to them to drill more holes.

Perhaps they wouldn't need such a large return of their tax dollars if the workers, from low man to company presidents were willing to volunteer their time or work for minimum wage like many of the people that plan these festivals or work at them during their short runs.





PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:05 am
 


Ripcat Ripcat:
ziggy ziggy:
It's not a subsidy dude,it's their tax dollars given back to them to drill more holes.

Perhaps they wouldn't need such a large return of their tax dollars if the workers, from low man to company presidents were willing to volunteer their time or work for minimum wage like many of the people that plan these festivals or work at them during their short runs.


:roll:

let me know when the CAW does the same.


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